Video recording & full transcript (translatable in 40 languages) now available for the Pulmonary Hypertension Expert Patient Academy (PHEPA) joint Alliance for Pulmonary Hypertension and PHA Europe project

LINK TO VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Can be translated in 40 languges, check orange button on bottom of page Gergely Meszaros: Good evening and good afternoon to everyone. Welcome to this webinar introducing the Pulmonary Hypertension Expert Patient Academy (PHEPA). I’m delighted to present this new initiative. When ERN-LUNG, the European Reference Network for Rare Respiratory Diseases, […]

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The Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI) launches its Pulmonary Hypertension Patient Engagement & Empowerment Series

The Pulmonary Hypertension Patient Engagement & Empowerment Series is a new evidence-based resource designed to help people living with pulmonary hypertension and their families and carers to be more informed, confident, and empowered. The series was developed by Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute IDDI Patient Engagement & Empowerment Workstream. The series explores 11 core themes, including:

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Publication of a new European Medicines Agency (EMA) booklet on medicine safety monitoring

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published a new booklet on the safety monitoring of medicines in the European Union. It provides an overview of how the European Medicines Agency and European Union Member States work to ensure that medicines used across Europe remain safe throughout their lifecycle.  The booklet is published on a new

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Full transcripts of the Alliance for Pulmonary Hypertension’s 2023 webinars now available for in a format that can be translated into 40 languages

The full transcripts of the Alliance for Pulmonary Hypertension’s 2023 six webinars are now available! The transcripts encapsulate invaluable insights that continue to resonate with current trends and emerging issues, serving as a vital resource for our community. They are now in a format that can be translated into 40 languages, thanks to the embedded

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Dr. Karin Boomars, a pulmonologist at Erasmus MC, Netherlands, explores possible treatment options for pulmonary hypertension with unclear and/or multifactorial origins, WHO Group 5

Louise Bouman, President of the Dutch Pulmonary Hypertension association, shared this article from the end-of-year edition of the association’s magazine “Papillon”. The article is about one of the five pulmonary hypertension groups classified by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Louise has also very kindly provided us with an English translation (see bottom of page for

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Prof. Adam Torbicki explores access to care, Prof. Jean-Luc Vachiéry delves into drug development – watch the highlights from the PHA Europe Annual Conference online

Prof. Adam Torbicki’s presentation is titled “Access to care for pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmponary hypertension”. It can be viewed at this link on Vimeo (you need to register on Vimeo to see it) Prof. Jean-Luc Vachiéry’s presentation is titled “Drug development and clinical trials“. It can be viewed at this link on

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All the presentations from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association UK’s gathering are online. Topics include nutrition, physical activity and exercise, treatments and tests, echocardiograms and implantable devices, December 26, 2023

The Pulmonary Hypertension Association UK held its first ever ‘Together’ event in October 2023 in partnership with the Sheffield Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit. Expert talks covered topics including treatments, research, nutrition, and physical activity, with a focus on empowering patients and their loved ones through developing knowledge and understanding. Here are the links to the

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Wrapping up a successful year of pulmonary hypertension knowledge-sharing educational live web events!

The Alliance for Pulmonary Hypertension has just held the last webinar of the six-part series it launched in June 2023 exploring the innovations outlined in the 2022 joint clinical guidelines on pulmonary hypertension by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS). Across these six insightful sessions, we delved into pivotal

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The US Pulmonary hypertension Association, PHA, is partnering with the Fundación Contra la Hipertensión Pulmonar, Spain, to host a two-part Live webinar series, simulcast in English and Spanish

November 30, 2 pm EST The first webinar, “Hope Through Research in Pulmonary Hypertension: Emerging Developments,” will review emerging pulmonary hypertension research developments and the potential impact they’ll have on the PH community. December 14, 2 pm EST The second webinar, “Hope Through Research in Pulmonary Hypertension: Clinical Trials,” will discuss the clinical trial process,

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Understanding right heart catheterisation, the “gold standard” test to diagnose pulmonary hypertension: a new resource by the UK Pulmonary Hypertension Association, PHA UK

The PHA UK has added new information to their website area that’s dedicated to right heart catheterisation procedure, check it out at this link. Cardiac catheterisation is known as the ‘gold standard’ test to diagnose pulmonary hypertension. It is a procedure that is used to study the right side of the heart and it is

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A credit-card sized guide to pulmonary hypertension developed by the UK Pulmonary Hypertension Association, PHA UK

Small enough to fit in your back pocket, this credit-card sized guide is a handy tool to carry around and give people to read about pulmonary hypertension, its impact on people’s lives and the aims of the PHA UK. Check this resource out on the PHA UK website at this link

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PHA UK’s “sister” website, phocusonlifestyle.org, is addressed at patients and caregivers and houses a wealth of support resources and pulmonary hypertension patient stories

http://www.phocusonlifestyle.org is the “sister” website to that of the UK Pulmonary Hypertension, PHA UK. It is aimed at patients and peers supporting each other through stories. It also houses written resources covering a very wide range of issues related to living with pulmonary hypertension including:

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Mapping the main stakeholders in pulmonary hypertension care, a brief summary by Pisana Ferrari

The main stakeholders in pulmonary hypertension care, a brief summary Author: Pisana Ferrari Last updated December 13, 2024 The following is a concise overview of key stakeholders in the field of pulmonary hypertension care at a European and international level. This list serves as a starting point and will be regularly updated to reflect the

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